While I'm not a super fast Braille reader, I personally find it very fast to
use speech to code.
For the kinds of things I need to do on a daily basis, the speed of using
speech is far superior for me.
I.E. I do not need to leave my keyboard to search huge projects and edit little
bits of code
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Sent: Friday, December 13, 2013 7:34 AM
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the only braille display I would get is a braille pen because those are
the cheapest and most affordable. I am still waiting for a nice cheap
$300 or so 25 line full page braille display.
using windows7 laptop
On 12/13/2013 8:34 AM, Thomas Ward wrote:
Hi Charles:
Yes and no. Certainly when l
Hi Charles:
Yes and no. Certainly when looking at code braille is beneficial
because you can instantly feel if your formatting is correct, if you
have all the write syntax, function names are correctly spelled, etc.
However, there are ways to get the same information through speech,
and no it does
For a braille display you need a software to use it which you don't have
to pay a cent for getting it:
For Windows you have Nvda, for Apple products you use Voiceover, for
Android you use Talkback, for Lynux you use Orca. What is the damn
expensive software you need for using braille with a brai
Hello Dark:
So I also tell you as a professional musician myself how can you learn
and analyze pieces like Rachmaninnoffs Second Concerto with tupplets of
dozens of notes in one beat in both hands without reading it?
Are you superman?
And if we don't need to read, why sighted musicians use scor
Hello Dark:
So I also tell you as a professional musician myself how can you learn
and analyze pieces like Rachmaninnoffs Second Concerto with tupplets of
dozens of notes in one beat in both hands without reading it?
Are you superman?
And if we don't need to read, why sighted musicians use scor
Hi Charles,
I never touched braille until I was thirty two and a half, so I am not very
good with it. I do though like it for playing cards with friends. If by
myself though, I will play cards on the computer instead.
Up Words is a game similar to scrabble, but you stack letters to change w
From: "Thomas Ward"
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Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2013 11:51 AM
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Hi Bryan:
Well, regarding netspeak I think a lot of that has to do
nt: Thursday, December 12, 2013 11:03 AM
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Hi:
Lol! Yes, fingers are better than ears when playing guitars and pianos
too.
Regarding basic proofreading and editing no matter what screen rea
Hi Bryan:
Well, regarding netspeak I think a lot of that has to do with more and
more people are using phones for communicating and since phones don't
have full sized keyboards for e-mailing or texting it is easier to use
the number 2 rather than use to or too. Various other common netspeak
shortc
While I do partly agree on the litteracy front, there is another side to it.
when I first switched from primarily writing in braille to typing, my
spelling was horribly bad simply because I was so used to grade two
contractions.
I couldn't spell very basic words like little, recieve or father
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Hi Jorge:
I think you have hit upon the one issue that we can agree upon. While
braille use is gradually being replaced by other technical
alternatives it is still the only way to truly p
Hi:
Lol! Yes, fingers are better than ears when playing guitars and pianos too.
Regarding basic proofreading and editing no matter what screen reader
certain things should be obvious when a word sounds wrong, it runs on
without pausing, etc it is easy enough to find and correct such errors
just b
From: "dark"
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Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2013 7:27 AM
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Hi Tom.
This is why I said braille display technology needs to catch up, in both
Hi Tom.
All that is true, indeed I remember in secondary school having regular
arguements with the school librarian (rather like Madam pince in Harry
potter), who stated that a person could only have 3 books out at a
time, irrispective that the three books I wanted out were three volumes
AM
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I also would like to give my opinion:
For me when we talk about braille we now adays have to include Braille
as a whole language both for paper and electronic braille displays.
For me Braill
Hi charlse.
I'm just wondering about some of these catagorical statements you make.
For example "Why use a device to read labels when braille works better?" how
is braille labelling better exactly?
Using the pen friend I can record labels as long as I like. if I want a
label saying "indiana
Hi George.
As a professional musician and singer myself I personally disagree entirely
about braille music, but that is not an arguement to have here.
Regarding braille display and writing, given the choice between a synth
voice are a braille display, for speed and convenience I'd probably re
that
feedback.
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From: "Thomas Ward"
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Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2013 10:22 AM
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Hi Jorge:
I think you have hit upon the one issue that we can agree upon. While
braille use is gradually being replaced by other technical
alternatives it is still the only way to truly pass on literacy to a
blind person. I know that on this and other blind related list the
literacy of the blind l
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From: "Thomas Ward"
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Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2013 4:21 AM
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Hi Charles:
In the words of the Borg, "braille is irrele
Hi Dark:
My point exactly. Comparing braille to print is clearly unequal as
what can be a pocket sized handbook for the sighted person takes
several huge volumes in braille for a blind person. What I want as an
end user is the same portability, same space requirements, and same
ability to look thi
agreed.
I couldn't store any braille books in my bedsit.
Amanda
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From: "Thomas Ward"
Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2013 10:21 AM
To: "Gamers Discussion list"
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I also would like to give my opinion:
For me when we talk about braille we now adays have to include Braille
as a whole language both for paper and electronic braille displays.
For me Braille is literacy and can never be replaced. The blind person
should be able to write and read like everyone e
I think the best example of braille size was my schools copy of the pocket
dictionary in braille.
Bare in mind the phrase "pocket dictionary" a book which all the other kids
doing english were lent a copy of and which was, as the name implies
pocket sized.
The braille version was 18 vol
Hi Charles:
In the words of the Borg, "braille is irrelevant." Lol!
Seriously, though, you have a point. If the technology fails a person
who was totally dependent on it would be sunk. However, using braille
is still none-the-less an impractical method of reading and writing,
because it is imposs
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Hi Tom.
I could see a braille revival if the technology to produce it ever catches
up with speech
Wednesday, December 11, 2013 1:39 PM
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Or indeed not actually tom.
I have been blind all my life (or at least registered blind in the Uk), I
did learn braille before the first day of sc
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